Domestic Space Quotes

A house is a compressed territory where our basic needs can be fulfilled close by and safely.

Men have no concept of how to design things for the home. Women should design the things they use.

The world is a big place," he said, "but so is the inside of an apartment!

I'm not a natural employer. I live very privately, and we like our privacy at home. To be sitting and talking with your wife or your family and to have somebody walking around and you're ignoring them, I couldn't handle that at all. I can barely handle a cleaning lady coming in every so often.

If anyone interferes into the private life of two people, I will defend the right of those two people between their four walls. That is no problem.

Behind our unremarkable front door waits the little world of our making - our home.

It's that I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room.

Even one's own home is a kind of anthology of advertisers, manufacturers, motifs and presentation techniques. There's nothing 'natural' about one's home these days. The furnishings, the fabrics, the furniture, the appliances, the TV, and all the electronic equipment - we're living inside commercials.

A man is so in the way in the house.

My interest in theatre and storytelling began in my mother's kitchen. It was a meeting place for my mother's large circle of friends.

The space between the television set and the viewer is holy ground.

'Man cave' seems retrograde, but 'she shed' seems progressive. Or maybe it's just a place for me to eat embarrassing amounts of chocolate in private.

You cannot have one bathroom. And it don't matter how much you love your wife and everything, 'cause you wind up with no room at all. You just get a little corner, and you've got a toothbrush and your paste and a shaving brush and a razor.

I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

This is the room of the wolfmother wallpaper.

Whether you wish to chant 'Our houses, our selves' or 'We have houses, hear us roar,' for us women, home is where the heart is.

Everything was curved to fit the walls: the stove, the sink and the cupboards, and all of it had been painted with flowers, insects and birds in bright primary colours.

The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.

The most important thing about a TV set is to get it back against something and not out in the middle of a room where it's like a somber fellow making electronic judgments on you.

The radio is just a stereo like a house ain't a home.

I work in our living room, a strange room in a strange, topsy-turvy house. I work underneath this enormous bookshelf.

I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.